Vagrant on Cygwin

Not fully tested taken from memory and history so if anything is missing please comment.

Taken mostly from a good post here http://www.enrise.com/2012/12/git-and-vagrant-in-a-windows-environment/ Assumes you have latest cygwin and virtualbox installed.

Cygwin need svn and bash Install other deps

svn --force export http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /bin/
chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg
apt-cyg install make ruby curl git bsdtar ssh

Get Vagrant 1.1.0 dev from git (once this is stable then this step is not needed).

git clone https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant.git
cd vagrant 

Update pull request for cygwin fix from here https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/1366

curl https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/1366.patch | git am

Install gem so deps are install then rake install to update to dev version with patches applied

gem install vagrant
rake install

Add VBOX_USER_HOME

export VBOX_USER_HOME=`pwd`/.VirtualBox/

Add symlink to VBoxManage

ln '/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe' /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage

Use vagrant

vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
vagrant init lucid32
vagrant up

You May get an error when starting up. This is because the Virtual box guest additions need to be installed so the directory can be mounted

vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-addition